Monday, October 5, 2009

Tonight was the opening of the 4th annual Intercollegiate Metals Exhibition,This is a juried exhibition of jewelryand metalwork from the students and faculty ofseven different universities across the nation!i was lucky enough to get my cactus piece in, andeven more lucky by wining second prize in the jewelry category!!!How awesome is that!!!

The show had so much awesome talent and amazing work!everyone who can should go check it out!its at the gallery 100 on mill and 10th st.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

On one of my antique store raids, i cameacross this metal box, to discover that withinthis metal box, was a slide viewer and slidesfrom the 1960's of a trip to the grand canyon.They were Abandoned and Forgotten in life's movements.Memories long gone, ghosts of what was.I bought them and took them home to give themmeaning again.

So this is what i came up with.and may i say im REALLY excitedto see what all comes out of this series :)in normal light the piece looks nice and simpleand you cant really see anything but blackin the slide. But hold it up to light and there'syour hidden oasis, at your very finger tips.let your imagination take you away to a calm place,where water is streaming, and birds calling, a prefectgetaway from today's busy world. The Negative showsa lovely stream/creek flowing down rocks of all sizeswith a sweet sky and trees.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

WOW has it been FOREVER sinceive posted anything!o.o!anyway ill be doing a lot of catch up andyou'll probably be seeing a new postevery other day lol

ANYWAYtodays post is about my final piecefor my enameling class!so with out farther or due,here it is!!!

heres a progress shot,before it was all attached andpatinad

and heres the final piece!!!i literally had no sleepall weekend working on this!i do have to say Ted McDonah is an awesome professor.you can check out his work on his blog(http://metalmonger.blogspot.com/)im really happy with the way this turned outeven though i an avid desert hateri really enjoyed making this!though im still not sure why i pickedto do something deserty if i hate it so,i think its the fact its can be really pretty in thespring, but everything you touch pokesand pricks you, so maybe the relation betweenyou my see a beautiful flower but in the endit stabs you and brings you pain.just because its pretty doesn't meanits something good.

so its kinda like my orchids, they lookpretty but their are nicks, bumps and bruises in thefinish, and its those bumps, bruises and nicks that makeus all unique, nothing is ever perfect.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

okay so this is what i am working on at the moment!im really excited about this, what was supposed tobe a sample now, epic piece of awesomness.im going to be patinaing all the leaves with a darkgreen, and some liver of sulfered black,then all the flowers, frogs birds and ext.will be prismacolored!and then the whole thing will be blind rivited!